Microsoft to cut time holds internet search data

Tue, 01/19/2010 - 08:45 EDT - France24.com - Business

Software giant Microsoft said it would slash by two thirds the time it holds Internet users' personal data gathered from search queries.The US giant, behind the Bing search engine, called on market leader Google to do likewise during a Brussels press conference."Microsoft will remove the entirety of IP addresses from search queries at six months," said John Vassallo, vice president for European Union affairs, referring to Internet Protocol data identifying individual users.

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